Woodboy

[quote]Follow our curator page: [b]IndieGems[/b] if you like and want to see more reviews like this one.[/quote] [i]Woodboy[/i] is creative but short. I caught it during the 2020 Summer sale (current) and at 90% off, this was a fun experience. What looks like a [i]Zelda[/i] clone actually is just a medium-large puzzle, with individual elements that you need to figure out through playing a few runs before you can put it all together for a complete playthrough, which only takes a few minutes. The whole game takes place from beginning to end from Monday through Thursday. If Friday rears its ugly head, it's game over. During this allotted time frame, you need to perform all of the quests within the game in appropriate fashion in order for everyone to make it past this week. If you make a mistake or take a circuitous path, then it's game over and restart. (Keep in mind that this "time" is a loose concept, it more of an idea of several things happen in the game that would pass a single "day" causing the clock to advance. You are not restricted by a continuously counting down clock. You can spend as long as you want without passing a day, if you do not trigger one of these events.) Due…

It didn't take overly long to 100% the game. But I really enjoyed the experience! The concept is cute and fun, and it takes some creative thinking to properly execute the full events of the game. I really enjoyed that there were options presented to you that could never actually be completed! You'd try to logic out trying to make it to the city quickly enough with enough money to buy the potion, only to learn there is a different solution available. I know that will annoy some people, but I thought it was very clever! It keeps you guessing, and forces you to really milk every possibility. Sure the game is short, but I would love to see this game earn a little more support so this creative developer can carry some lessons learned here forward to their next project! Heck, I'd even play a Woodboy 2 with this concept expanded upon. I think a better visual representation of the day changing would help. There were a few actions I wasn't immediately aware were progressing time (moving between certain screens). The little exclamation mark didn't help much.

I had good fun.

Fantastic, fun, short and sweet, and filled with puzzles. Wow, Woodboy truly impressed me. I do not recall buying it but clearly I did and it was well worth that impulse buy (likely a summer sale). Getting 100% stumped me for a bit but then it finally clicked with all of the puzzles falling into place. Different things happen on different days, if you could go back 5 days, what wood you do differently?

3/10